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INSPECTION OF RECORDS.

13. It shall be the duty of the judges of the several courts of
law and equity at every term to inspect the records and papers
of the offices attached to their respective courts relating to
lands, tenements or other real estate, and examine the condition
thereof, and see whether the clerk of such court has performed
the duties required of him by law, relating to the recording
of judgments, decrees, executions and proceedings, and whether
he has entered and transcribed the docket entries as required
by law.

JUDGMENTS.

14. The court shall give judgment in all actions according
to the very right of the cause and matter in law shall appear
to them, without regarding any matters of mere form, so as
sufficient matter shall appear in the proceedings, upon which
the court shall proceed to give judgment, and that it shall appear
that the action has been commenced after the cause thereof shall
accrue.

15. All judgments by confession on verdict, or by default,
shall be so entered as to carry interest from the time they were
rendered.

16. On all judgments rendered in any court of law, an execu-
tion may issue at any time within three years from the date of
such judgment, where there has been no change of parties to
such judgment by death or by marriage.

17. If a stay of execution be entered by the clerk on the
docket, at the time of the rendition of the judgment, execution
may issue at any time within three years after the expiration of
the stay; or if a judgment be stayed by injunction, supersedeas,
appeal or writ of error, an execution may issue at any time
within three years after such stay is removed.

18. A judgment rendered against one or more members of
a partnership, or one or more persons jointly liable on any bill,
bond, covenant, promissory note, bill of exchange, contract or
agreement whatsoever, less than the whole number of partners
or persons so bound, shall not work an extinguishment or
merger of the cause of action on which such judgment may have
been rendered, as respects the liability of the partners or persons

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